Formulas for designing your own bead patterns from the book Julia Pretl's Big Book of Beadwork

If you have really gotten into beading and want to try designing your own patterns, check out these pages from Julia Pretl's Big Book of Beadwork on how to design your own bead patterns.

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Julia Pretl's Big Book of Beadwork:

32 Projects for Adventurous Beaders

By

Julia S Pretl

This volume brings together some of the best of Julia Pretl's bead collections. In this compilation of the author’s previous three books, Beaded Collars, Bead Knitted Bags, and Little Bead Boxes, readers learn the author’s original methods for beading miniature vessels, knit purses, and classic neck pieces. Pretl, an innovator of form and technique, offers instruction for creating four-, five-, and six-sided rectangular, square, and stacked miniature boxes; vintage-style bead-knitted handbags; and intricate neckpieces, inspired by the dramatic jewelry worn by the ancient Egyptians.

Each of the projects contains a materials list and instructions presented both in written and charted form. With detailed instruction and sequenced illustrations, the author provides clear, step-by-step guidance. The enclosed DVD offers a series of video tutorials in bead knitting, with all the techniques needed for the projects included (for both left- and right-handed knitters!), and full-size printable PDFs of graphs.

Julia S. Pretl (Baltimore, MD) is the author of Beaded Collars, Little Bead Boxes, and Bead Knitted Bags. She has been featured in articles and on the cover of Interweave’s Beadwork magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Baltimore Sun and in several galleries and exhibits. She was an invited artist for Beading for the Soul (Interweave, 2005). Julia teaches classes and workshops and is well known in the online and off-line beadwork community.

 

Comments

[Judi FitzPatrick]

Looks like a really cool book, will look for it in my local book stores.

[Suella]

There are some lovely patterns there.